Gotta love them American soldiers of ancient Sparta

@@invictus88 Hoplites.

@@Sevenfold120 American soldiers

It's no coincidence that the fall of the Spartan nation in 200 BC lines up almost perfectly with the rise of the Pictish nation at the same time in Scotland.

Atlanta the gay part is acurate

The laugh after is pure gold

*hurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhurhur*

😂😂😂

Homosexuality in the militaries of ancient Greece was regarded as contributing to morale.

Their women must have had the looks of a robber's dog

Actually the term "homosexual" did not existed at that time until later. For them having sex with men was regarded as normal behavior.

dashengquan Bro, I think you need to look up Pederasty and The Sacred Band of Thebes.

And chests, and arms, and hands, and backs... Miss anything?

@@Silirion their faces. They missed their faces.

lol

@@Silirion sokratis dalakas you missed knees and toes

You forgot that they shaved literally everything beside eyebrows, head and a few beards

stefons ancestor lmaoo

@crazy waters he’s referring to the snl skits with bill hader cast as stefon

I think this came out before Stefon on weekend update but the sketch had already happened

Was looking for this comment 😁

Slot of your names are Greek, and slot of your words, especially in the medical department

I didn't get that one, could you explain? 😅

@@user-qn4tq2qt5m from my limited experience with the gay community they would use 2 F words regularly, Fierce, and Fabulous. That's why I found it so funny in the moment.

@@forcesightknight oh right! Thank you so much🙏😆

No, its about their gesture that makes its fun

it's hilarious 😅😅😅

And Bill Hader's nervous laugh.

+Rowen Chumacera Atlast Someone

It isn't in Scotland the actor is from Scotland though

+Curly Fries Thanks Buzz Killington

actually sparta and braveheart was the same

And I didn't know most of its army consisted of American immigrants :D

There's always opposition for doing the right thing, even when they control the entire Congress and the presidency :V

😂😂😂

That one line was the best in the whole skit

Lol 😂

fax

😂

Doric dialect

that was adorable

They actually have only one six pack in the middle of the breastplate, the ones on the sides arent representing a six pack, they were common in the ancient times to make the soldiers look stronger, also that shape is good for deflecting arrows, although not the most efficient, it looks better than having your breastplate round making you look fat isn't it?

six

Birisu Andrei I think it was a joke

@@orangeondaxbox2768 ik but I hope you guys learned something interesting if you were wondering why ancient armor looked like its covered in abs😂

Yes

Γαμόθεος 🤣🤣 lol

Ahahah Greek army really good joke I heard that you guys can swim very well my grandpa told me when they push you back in to Aegean sea

Turks brag about defeating near dead empires and their prowess. The list goes on endlessly.

@@kcinkcin3808 weren't you our slaves about 600 years you are probably a turk too don't curse on your race :))

@@cant8160 oh yes turkish imperialism is soo cool, let's commit even more war crimes. Stupid fuck^^

So it WAS him in this sketch after all.

@@LupusDei777 yes Gerard II the Butler king of sparta

Still in the best shape of that group.

I mean, this WAS well over a year after he filmed the movie. It would have been impossible to maintain that godlike body for very long.

Weird thing is he doesn’t even sound like himself in the movie. Lazy stuff right there.

But they did wrestle naked

The Celts did, turned up naked high on mushrooms and scared the shit out of the Roman army

@@jimmy_the_squid9456 Celts were fucking bonkers though. Still are

No that’s not historically accurate, you just misguided a lot of people

@@dstn87godz52 i mean, power of abs vs fake chestplate? yeah, chestplate all the way

And got decimated by Alexander (before he was king) and King Philip, his father.

fun fact while there was no elite unit of gay guys in Sparta, homosexuality in the spartan army was explicitly welcomed. So they probably were all gay.

The question is what did the king exactly mean with friends, because in ancient greece the whole brotherhood thing could quickly get really gay. For example Achilles and Pathrokles were more than just good friends.

you mean modern authors like Plato

jajaja, good one

+Erehe Mias So I was right all along?

+Erehe Mias And I was wondering who was that xD

is it really?! Epic!

SNL loves poking fun at their guests' most notable roles. The best one was when they made Taylor Lautner play a teenage Team Edward fan

+Oliver R ahahahahahahahah

And **fierce**

If one of us was gay

Harder daddy

no

@@nickpurnell2769 😂🤣

Different times, different views. Also religion and morality had nothing to do with each other then.

Wait , I never heard of "Spartans indulging gay relationship (youtube censorship)" before. Can I ask for source? I believe you are mixing up Spartan Hoplites with Theban Sacred Band.

@@hannibalburgers477 then you obviously know nothing about Spartans, maybe go do more research before pretending you know anything

@@hannibalburgers477 you should look into the pederasty in Ancient Greece. Older more experienced men would take in young boys and teach them everything, even in that area, I think. You can look it up

@@DrHardlyKummsz This is why I asked for source 🤦‍♂️ How mature you are. I am sure you know everything about Sparta. So how about you stop cowering under a manhole and come to me with a proper argument, you sodden-witted yellow belly edgelord?

Bill is the best 😂

i saw this and went on to do it myself... loved it

You mean, 'I like how Leonidas does not "behave" explicitly gay? No one 'is' gay. It is a behavior.

Sparta was famously gay

@AndreTreeCantSeeMe Athens was too . I was oversimplifying but it got the general point across. Also while the general stance was against adult bottoms that wasn’t always the case in all social circles. Societies tend to break into different social opinions based on class, with the aristocracy usually being much looser and the peasantry usually being much stricter. As long as you weren’t publicly the bottom, a lot of the time it wouldn’t be a problem

I read somewhere-and I don't know how true this is- that Sparta actually encouraged homosexual relationships between their soldiers because it was believed that a man will fight harder than usual in front of his lover in order to not bring shame or something to said lover. Again, no idea how factual this info was. Just something I read online.

@AndreTreeCantSeeMe that was Rome, Sparta was before them. While it's true that in Rome the biggest, strongest, and largest hung warriors got to be tops...it wasn't a shame to be a bottom, they considered it taking in the warriors essence and further empowering themselves. There were all kinds of weird ideas about getting nutted in back then.

@@Blizzard0fOz93 i heard that the reason they did it was they felt the trauma would make them fierce

No, Martinus. Stephanus is his friend.

.... I'll be in my bunk.

Not really. You are confusing them with Sacred Band from Thebes

horse shit..

@@Lalakis weren't they both really active in homosexual relationships?

Spartans were definitely homophillic. It got especially weird when some of them married - they would cut their newlyweds hair, dress her boyish. This would go on for years [Source: Brettany Hughes, "Meet the Spartans", BBC [2003]

Obama's birth certificate again. Is Hawaii really, I mean really, part of America?

Isabel Ariel omg

holy shit

Almost as funny as a load of Spartans with American accents.

motto of the greek army: don't leave your man's behind

Lol Obama

Trump-Obama reference 😂

Seriously have no idea how gayness got such a bad stigma

@Ongo Gablogian ok they didn't have the labels but like... that doesnt mean its not gay lol

@Ongo Gablogian why the fuck did it change

@Ongo Gablogian what part of why the fuck did it change even sound like argument

@Ongo Gablogian I mean it probably wasn't called gay but they definitely did call it something

what is it like being gay? is it true you know all the best jokes? And do you really know what's going to be in fashion like a year beforehand? Can you fly?

ruispuuro Uhm... "no" on all of those questions. Homosexuality has nothing to do with humor or fashion or flying abilities.

kurvos i know i'm sorry.,,,

kurvos Does it have something to do with bad sense of humor?

kurvos Then why did you advertise your sexual orientation in the first place?

It's him

Jo He whoosh

🙄, He is

the very same person

Gerard Butler. He was more ripped though.

None of you illiterate idiots knows jackshit about ancient Greek history apart from the generic superficial propaganda they "teach" you in your dumbass foreign schools for a few courses. Not only homosexuality was punishable by DEATH in Ancient Sparta, but in classic Athens gay men were chased by the police of the time and they were banned from participating in any social activity such as theaters, gyms, and voting. Aristotle himself famously said to a gay man "I pitty you for you stopped being a man, yet without becoming a woman". And most statues or other depictions of homosexual behavior were the today's equivalent caricatures meant to ridicule such behavior, not encourage homosexuality let alone embrace it. So get your actual facts STRAIGHT (no pun intended) you uneducated trolls!

None of you illiterate idiots knows jackshit about ancient Greek history apart from the generic superficial propaganda they "teach" you in your dumbass foreign schools for a few courses. Not only homosexuality was punishable by DEATH in Ancient Sparta, but in classic Athens gay men were chased by the police of the time and they were banned from participating in any social activity such as theaters, gyms, and voting. Aristotle himself famously said to a gay man "I pitty you for you stopped being a man, yet without becoming a woman". And most statues or other depictions of homosexual behavior were the today's equivalent caricatures meant to ridicule such behavior, not encourage homosexuality let alone embrace it. So get your actual facts STRAIGHT (no pun intended) you uneducated trolls!

Feel free to give me the name of some authors or perhaps a link so I can learn then instead of just picking on my comment. My intention was not to insult anyone, but if you took it that way I apologize.

***** Actually,sorry to burst your bubble of contained heterosexual macho,but it is true. Αν χρειαζεσαι συγκεκριμενο αποσπασμα,μπορεις να διαβασεις Πλατωνα η Αριστοφανη, ακομα και στην Ιλιαδα υπαρχουν αναφορες. Δεν σου λεω οτι πηδιοντουσαν καθε μερα με δωδεκαχρονα τρυφερα αγορακια οπως το κανουν να ακουγεται,καμια σχεση,αλλα η ομοφυλοφιλια δεν ηταν το ταμπου το οποιο εμεις εχουμε σημερα.

Alex Orf it doesnt become evidence when you put it in greek, just saying...

Xenophon's Spartan Society. I would recommend you do the translation yourself to avoid confusion, read the part about the married life and sex in Sparta then come back and say to me your opinion.

+Alex Orf Actually sorry to burst your bubble but Plato was heavily known to hate Spartans and had all the reason to degrade them (remeber it happened after Athens lost the Pelopponisian war) and Aristofanis really, the vulgar satirist for whom nothing was sacred. Σου σινιστω να διαβασεις του Ξενοφοντος την Λακαιδεμονιων Πολιτεια φιλε μου για να δεις τη γνωμη μη Σπαρτιατη για τον τροπο ζως τους. Παρεπιπτοντος αναφερεται και στην ομοφιλοφιλια και πως αντιμετωπιζωνταν οσοι ηταν ομοφιλοφιλοι.